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Thank you for the tips folks!
It is an old Gambrel farmhouse.
This room appears to have been an add on at some point in time. There are two beams next to each other and you can see where the 1x13" oak siding planks had been cut off in between them. All the main timbers are rough hewn with axe marks where they were hewn to roughly flat sides.
The main reason for doing this is that the current rough hewn planks that are up there now between the timbers have large gaps that allow stuff to drop down in between them. Not good finding dust and mouse droppings coming down into your bedroom. There is a space between the floors and occasionally when the weather starts getting cold a few will try coming into the house. Between bait, traps, and the cat it usually gets taken care of fairly quickly but still... Those planks were painted a milky white color at some point in time. Too much work to sand them down and refinish, thought about plastering, but finally decided T&G might be a better look with the wood finish. I was thinking about molding but keeping it fairly basic. Being an old farmhouse it might look a bit out of place if I went with to detailed/fancy moldings.
William
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